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The following activities can be integrated into themes or be used by themselves to bring improvement in targeted competencies. They are not necessarily meant to be used sequentially; rather read through the activities which address the skill you wish to cover, then choose the ones which best suit the needs and interests of your learners.

PERSONAL (LP)

LP1 — Identify how they learn most easily (preferred learning style)

ACTIVITY ONE (LP 1)

Objective: Learners will identify various learning modalities.

1. The instructor divides the board into 3 sections and writes one heading for each: "Phone number, A person's name, Directions to a place."
   
   
2. The instructor asks students to describe how they learn or memorize a new phone number, a person's name, and directions to a place.
   
   
3. Several students share how they learn these items. The instructor writes what they say on the board.
   
   
4. The instructor explains to the students that different people learn in different ways. S/he asks the students for examples.
   
   
5. The instructor erases the board and writes the following learning modalities across the top: Listening, Speaking, Writing, Doing, Viewing, Reading.
   
   
6. The instructor asks the students, " How would someone with a ______learning modality learn best?" (S/he asks the question six times putting a different modality in the blank each time.) Students respond.
   
   
7. The instructor asks the students which of the six ways they think they learn the best. Students respond.
   
   
8. Students get into small groups. The instructor passes out a piece of butcher paper to each group.
   
   
9. In their groups, students copy down the learning modalities on a piece of butcher paper and create an icon (symbol) for each modality.
   
   
10. Students share their icons with the class.
    
    
11. The papers are displayed in class.
    

ACTIVITY TWO (LP 1)

Objective: Students will identify their preferred learning modalities.

1. The instructor describes how s/he learned how to do something, thus illustrating one of his/her primary learning modalities. ("I learned to ride a bike by watching my brother ride his first.")
   
   
2. Students share with the class something that they learned how to do over the last year and describe how they learned it.
   
   
3. The instructor asks students to recall the six learning modalities that they discussed earlier. S/he passes out the handout "How Do You Learn Best?"
   
   
4. Students take the assessment and thus determine their preferred learning modality.
   
   
5. In small groups, students discuss the following questions:
   • How do you learn best according to the assessment?
   • Do you agree with the assessment results? Why or why not?
   • Tell about a time you learned something using your preferred learning modality.
   • Which one of the learning modalities seems least comfortable to you?

ACTIVITY THREE (LP 1)

Objective: Students will identify strategies to enable them to learn better.

1. The instructor divides the board into 6 sections and writes one learning modality heading for each: Listening, Speaking, Writing, Doing, Viewing, Reading.
   
   
2. Students go up to the board and write their name under the heading which describes their primary learning modality.
   
   
3. The instructor asks if any generaliza